mysqli::get_charset
mysqli_get_charset
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7)
mysqli::get_charset -- mysqli_get_charset — Returns a character set object
Description
Object oriented style
Procedural style
Returns a character set object providing several properties of the current active character set.
Parameters
-
link
-
Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()
Return Values
The function returns a character set object with the following properties:
-
charset
-
Character set name
-
collation
-
Collation name
-
dir
-
Directory the charset description was fetched from (?) or "" for built-in character sets
-
min_length
-
Minimum character length in bytes
-
max_length
-
Maximum character length in bytes
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number
-
Internal character set number
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state
-
Character set status (?)
Examples
Example #1 mysqli::get_charset() example
Object oriented style
<?php
$db = mysqli_init();
$db->real_connect("localhost","root","","test");
var_dump($db->get_charset());
?>
Procedural style
<?php
$db = mysqli_init();
mysqli_real_connect($db, "localhost","root","","test");
var_dump(mysqli_get_charset($db));
?>
The above examples will output:
object(stdClass)#2 (7) { ["charset"]=> string(6) "latin1" ["collation"]=> string(17) "latin1_swedish_ci" ["dir"]=> string(0) "" ["min_length"]=> int(1) ["max_length"]=> int(1) ["number"]=> int(8) ["state"]=> int(801) }
See Also
- mysqli_character_set_name() - Returns the default character set for the database connection
- mysqli_set_charset() - Sets the default client character set
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